Contents of the SIZE.DOC file

PURPOSE: to allow the user to find out in advance how much allocated space a set of files will take if moved from one type of disk to another.

FUNCTION: a utility to show, for any group of files within any directory on any disk, the actual disk space used by that group of files plus the allocation requirements for that group of files both on the disk on which they reside, and for all other type disks. Allocation sizes shown are based, obviously, on the cluster sizes (1K, 2K, etc.) used by the various disks (360K, 1.2Meg, 20Meg, etc.).

INVOCATIONS:

(1) SIZE

The can be to any drive and any directory and any set of files (which can be validly described with the DOS wildcards "*" and "?"), but it MUST end in a file spec, NOT a directory spec, otherwise the program will report that there are no files for it to size.

(2) SIZE

This case will assume all files in current directory (i.e. is taken as "\\*.*")

and may therefore be shared freely with no restrictions (this includes the source code). I ask only that (1) Distribution always include the entire contents of the HH-SIZE.ARC, namely: SIZE.EXE SIZE.DOC SIZE.C (2) The Hobbit House message be left intact

MESSAGES FROM "SIZE":

(1) "Nobody Home!" --- indicates that no files of the kind specified by were found. Also will occur if specifies a directory instead of a file.

This shows 30 files found with an actual disk usage of 280759 bytes, and then it shows the allocations requirements for the same set of files if they were to be transferred to any of the disks specified.